Chapter I: Front Matter

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898

Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and
their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions,
as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the
political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those
islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the
close of the nineteenth century,

Volume XLVIII, 1751-1765

Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson
with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord
Bourne.

The Arthur H. Clark Company
Cleveland, Ohio
MCMVII

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XLVIII

Preface 13

Documents of 1751-1762:

Usurpation of Indian lands by friars. Fernando VI;
San Lorenzo, November 7, 1751 27
Moro raids repulsed by Visayans. [Unsigned];
Manila, [1755] 37
Augustinian parishes and missions, 1760. Pedro Velasco,
O.S.A.; Tondo, April 16, 1760 52
Later Augustinian and Dominican missions. Antonio
Mozo, O.S.A.; Madrid, 1763. Bernardo Ustáriz, O.P.;
Manila, 1745 59
Events in Filipinas, 1739-1762. [Compiled from Martinez
de Zúñiga and other writers.] 137

Memorial of 1765. Francisco Leandro de Viana; Manila,
February 10, 1765 197

Bibliographical Data 339

ILLUSTRATIONS

Map of the Philippine Islands; photographic facsimile from
original map in Murillo Velarde's Historia de la provincia
de Philipinas (Manila, 1749); from copy in possession of
Edward E. Ayer, Chicago Frontispiece
Map of Leyte, from original MS. of P. Pagteel, in
collection of Charts by Alexander Dalrymple ([London],
1788), ii, p. 76; photographic facsimile from copy in
Library of Congress 39
Plan of the new Alcaicería of San Fernando, 1756;
photographic facsimile from original manuscript in
Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla 181
View of Spanish city and fort of Gammalamma, Terrenate;
photographic facsimile from Recueil des voiages Comp.
Indes orientales (Amsterdam, 1725); iii, p. 348; from
copy in library of Wisconsin Historical Society 213
Plan of the citadel of Santiago at Manila; photographic
facsimile from original manuscript in Archivo general de
Indias, Sevilla 219
Map of Mindanao, 1757; by Nicolás Norton Nicols;
photographic facsimile from original manuscript in Archivo
general de Indias, Sevilla 281